COM3323 THE INFORMATION AGE
McDaniel College Department of Communication
Richard W. Dillman (rdillman@ticopa.com)


Contents . Calendar . Additional Sources . Assignments and Grading . Discussion Board

ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF INFORMATION

The following is not an exhuastive list of sources. Instead it is intended to provide you with some examples of the kinds of texts that you will need to reference in your outside reading for this course.

 

WEBSITES

  1. Information: Wikipedia
  2. Information Age: People, Information & Technology: An Exhibition at the National Museum of American History: photos and text
  3. School of Information at University of Michigan
  4. How Much Information is Created Each Year? academic research project, 2003
  5. Technology Review - print magazine site
  6. New York Times Technology - print magazine site
  7. salon.com online magazine
  8. the cluetrain manifesto
  9. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication online journal
  10. whole systems
  11. Future Shock
  12. Chief Information Officer corporate information site
  13. C|NET
  14. Information Week business technology magazine
  15. CNN.com Technology
  16. Principia Cybernetica
  17. Virtual ethnography at Wikipedia
  18. Moving Toward Virtual Ethnography article
  19. Virtual Worlds research site
  20. The Virtual Worlds Project
  21. Four Ethical Issues of the Information Age / Management Information Systems Quarterly Volume 10, Number 1

 

JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES

  1. Technology Review
  2. Communication theory : a journal of the International Communication Association
  3. Journal of Communication
  4. Journal of research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
  5. The journal of interdisciplinary history
  6. Educational technology research and development
  7. Scientific American
  8. Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery
  9. Journal of broadcasting & electronic media
  10. The Journal of popular film and television

 

BOOKS

  1. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man / Herbert Marshall McLuhan
  2. War and Peace In the Global Village / Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore
  3. Culture Is Our Business / Marshall Mcluhan
  4. Introduction to Behavioral Research on the Internet / Michael H. Birnbaum
  5. Internet Research Methods : A Practical Guide for the Social and Behavioural Sciences (New Technologies for Social Research) / Claire Hewson, Peter Yule, Dianna Laurent, Carl Vogel
  6. Society Online / edited by Howard and Jones
  7. Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture / Taylor
  8. Life Online: Researching Real Experience in Virtual Space / Markham
  9. Virtual Ethnography / Hine
  10. Everything is Miscellaneous / Weinberger
  11. The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society / Norbert Wiener
  12. Future Shock / Alvin Toffler
  13. Taming the Beast: Choice & Control in the Electronic Jungle / Jason Ohler
  14. Then What? A Funquiry into the Nature of Technology, Human Transformation and Marshall McLuhan / Jason Ohler
  15. The Technological Conscience: Survival and Dignity in an Age of Expertise / Manfred Stanley
  16. Bandwagon effects in high-technology industries / Jeffrey H. Rohlfs
  17. Being digital / Nicholas Negroponte
  18. The technological fix : how people use technology to create and solve problems / edited by Lisa Rosner
  19. Granny @ work : aging and new technology on the job in America / Karen E. Riggs
  20. Silicon Alley : the rise and fall of a new media district / Michael Indergaard
  21. Encyclopedia of physical science and technology / Robert A. Meyers [editor]
  22. Digital economics : how information technology has transformed business thinking / Richard B. McKenzie
  23. Society, ethics, and technology / Morton Winston, Ralph Edelbach [editors]
  24. The science and ethics of engineering the human germ line : Mendel's maze / Jon W. Gordon
  25. The new financial order : risk in the 21st century / Robert J. Shiller
  26. From digital divide to digital opportunity / Appu Kuttan and Laurence Peters
  27. Smart mobs : the next social revolution / Howard Rheingold
  28. Down and out in Silicon Valley : the high cost of the high-tech dream / Mel Krantzler, Patricia Biondi Krantzler
  29. McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science & technology : an international reference work in twenty volumes including an index
  30. Essential McLuhan / Marshall McLuhan, et al
  31. The Medium is the Massage / Marshall McLuhan
  32. Synthetic Worlds: the Business and Culture of Online Games / Edward Castronova
  33. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet / Sherry Turkle
  34. The Second Self : Computers and the Human Spirit / Sherry Turkle
  35. Internet Communication and Qualitative Research : A Handbook for Researching Online (New Technologies for Social Research series) / Chris Mann, Fiona Stewart
  36. Doing Internet Research : Critical Issues and Methods for Examining the Net / Steve Jones
  37. Designing Virtual Worlds / Richard Bartle
  38. Postmortems from Game Developer: Insights from the Developers of Unreal Tournament, Black and White, Age of Empires, and Other Top-Selling Games / Austin Grossman (Editor)
  39. First Person : New Media as Story, Performance, and Game / Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Pat Harrigan (Editors)
  40. Society Online: The Internet in Context / Philip Howard and Steve Jones (Editors)
  41. How We Became Post Human: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics / N. Katherine Hailes